Carpet-fastener



(No Model.)

lP. ECKMAN.

, CARPET FASTBNBR. No. 530,096. Patented Dec. 4, 1894.

/ l Pae/E/olomcm/ NTTED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

PETER ECKMAN, OF SYRACUSE, KANSAS.

CARPET-FASTEN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 530,096, dated. Decemberll, 1894. Application led December 19,1893. S'erialNo. 494,041. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern.-

Beit known that I, PETER EOKMAN, of Syracuse, in the county of Hamilton, State Of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Carpet-Fasteners, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

The object of my invention is to produce an improved device for holding a carpetv firmly and smoothly against a ioor without the use of tacks, or any such thing calculated to deface a polished floor.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is a plan view of my rug holder complete. Fig. 2 shows a modified form of brace for the same. Fig. 3 isa sectional view of one of the side plates. Eig. 4 illustrates the method Of fastening the preferred form of sprin g-retaining clips to the side plate. l

Referring to the gures on the drawings: 1 indicates the inclined base Or side plate of a frame made, in practice, ofa size to hold a rug for which it is adapted. It may be provided With diagonal braces 2, as shown in Fig. 1, or with braces 3 extending, for example, from a baseboard of a room. In practice,however, the former method is preferred, since the braces would then be covered by the carpet. In the latter it would be necessary tO adopt some other means Of Obscuring them as much as possible. Each side plate is preferably made as shown in Eig. 3 Of the drawings, in which a beveled base-plate is adapted t0 be set under the edge Of the carpet to be retained and a curved Or beveled guard plate rising at its highest part a littleV above the surface of the carpet and sloping easily to the ioor. The side plates may be made of any suitable material as for example, wood, or preferably hard rubber, or gutta percha.

5 indicates a spring-retaining clip preferably made of wire and bent to form a coiled spring in its middle part. Its lower end 7 is inserted in the base-plate and securely united to it. The other end is bent to form a hook 8 pressed by the operation of the coiled spring against the top ofthe base-plate. The coiled spring is, in practice, set into arecess 9 at the juncture of the base-plate and guard plate.

In practice, the edge of the carpet is laid upon the base-plate and the hooked or bent end is inserted through the fiber of the carpet, in which it is securely retained by the action of the coiled spring. The middle Of the hook is completely embedded in the pile of the carpet and is obscured from sight.

l The guard plates serve to protect the spring clip from being bent when stepped upon and also form an Ornamental nish for the edge of the carpet.

'What I claim is In a rug holder, the combination with a frame composed of strips consisting of a base plate and an elevated guard plate graduallyV downwardly curved to the floor, of spring clips secured to the guard plates adapted to clamp the rug to the base plates and to be protected by said guard plates, substantially as specified.

In testimony of all which I have hereunto subscribed my name.

PETER ECKMAN.

Witnesses:

THOMPSON OVERTON, EMMA OVERTON.' 

